First, it's "deprecated". "Depreciated" means something similar, but is mostly an accounting term these days.

Second, just because some agents support it does not mean you should continue use. The reason the w3 deprecates the tag is so that you will stop using it. The word "should" is a little loaded. If you read the w3 definition of "should" it clearly implies no real obligation on the part of the user agent to continue to use deprecated tags. It merely states that one might want to do so, in order to ease the transition from HTML3 to HTML4

Third, the newer construct is called CSS, and gets you to think about how to separate content from layout directives. It's a more orthogonal approach. Generally this is considered a Good Thing (tm).

I'm sorry I was terse. I didn't mean to detract from the fact that I think you are doing a great job getting started with the above code.

In reply to (ichimunki) Re: perlvars (font tag) by ichimunki
in thread perlvars by epoptai

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